Hoo WinTail

Hoo
WinTail is a real-time log monitor
and log viewer for Windows like the
UNIX tail -f utility. It could be used to view the end
of a growing file. It is ideal for viewing application
traces or server log in real-time. You can view the last part of a
large file quickly without the need to load the entire file. Hoo WinTail
could capture and display OutputDebugString (Windows debugging
API) output as well.

Hoo WinTail has many excellent features for debugging program
and system administration: highlight filters, include
and exclude filters, regular expression for filters, monitor multiple log files,
bookmarks support, minimize to systray and flash systray icon to indicate new
lines written and so on.

Hoo WinTail is a file viewer only. It makes no
changes to log files. It opens log files in read-only mode. When
new lines are written to log file by other programs (e.g. your applications or
web server), Hoo WinTail reads the new lines and displays them.

Hoo WinTail has an attractive and intuitive MDI
and tabbed interface. You could monitor and view multiple
log files and capture OutputDebugString output
at the same time.

Top 10 Benefits of Hoo WinTail

Hoo WinTail monitors log files and displays
the last part of them. It supports all kinds of log files.
You also can monitor multiple log files at the same
time.

Capture and display OutputDebugString output

It's very useful for debugging program.
OutputDebugString is a Windows debugging API. You can
call it in all kinds of programming languages (VC/VB/C++ Builder/Delphi).

Highlight phrase with text color and background color

Let you easy to see some phrases you concern. You could enter
a regular expression and then highlight it. It's possible to show different text
instead the match phrase.

Send notification emails for specific highlight phrases occurrence

This feature is very valuable for administrators
and security personnel. Administrators
can watch for known problem "phrases" in various log files and notify
the support personnel if they occur. Security personnel can watch
for known issues in various log files (e.g. firewall log) and notify the proper
people if suspicious activity is noted.

Write the line that includes designated highlight phrase to a specified file

If you want to monitor a server log to extract
the information that was generated by a specific IP address
you can just set that IP address up as a "watch phrase" and all activity
for that IP address would be extracted to the specified
file.

Include and exclude filters

It's very useful to filter content that you don't want to see.
The regular expression is supported.

Send a notification email if a file stops updating

If your applications write to log files regularly, the software
will notify you by email if a log is no longer being written on.

Open a batch of files on one click

Hoo WinTail supports file sets. The feature allows user to open
a batch files just one one click.

Easy to see new log data generated

Hoo WinTail will draw a red line to separate new
text lines from old text lines when new data was captured and document is inactive
or Hoo WinTail loses focus.

DOS, UNIX and Unicode format log support

If you have these format logs you can monitor them using Hoo
WinTail conveniently.

Hoo WinTail Key Features

Monitor log files and display the last part of them
in real-time

Capture and display OutputDebugString output in real-time

Tabbed Interface

Highlight filters support

Save document as a HTML file with highlight color

Show highlight filter as different text

Send notification emails for designated highlight phrases occurrence

Write the line that includes specified highlight phrase to a specified file

Include/Exclude filters support

Support regular expression on Highlight filter and Include/Exclude
filters

Monitor a folder and open file automatically when new file is created

Support file set that opens multiple files by one click

Send a notification email if a file stops updating

Draw a red line to separate new text lines from old text lines

MDI interface - Monitor multiple log files and capture
OutputDebugString output at the same time

Minimize to systray and flash
systray icon to indicate new lines written

Bookmarks & Number Bookmarks support

Indicate file size in window title bar

Cut/Copy/Past/Delete displayed text arbitrarily, but make no changes
to the monitored log files